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of Lacosoi/i". The caterpillar of this moth spins a dwelling 

 for itself, and is remarkable from the bright colour of tin- 

 thoracic segments, the following somites being colourless; t lu- 

 lu-ad bears a pair of large processes, quite different from 

 those figured by Harris. The moth itself is very Geometrid- 



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like in colour and form. This species is now assigned to Pcrv- 



FIG. 188. Larvae of Hammock-moth, Perophom s//</>'//<"/. /</". projecting from their 

 Hammocks, built I'rom their own excrement. South America. (After Jones.) 



2'ili-ora, but it seems to be very doubtful whether many of the 

 species placed in this genus really belong to it. The diversity 

 of habits and instincts evinced by these moths of exceptional 

 modes of life, but considered to b,- closely allied, is very interest- 

 ing. The most remarkable of all is the Hammock-moth, Pt-m- 

 pliora sanguinolenta, of the centre of South America, the larva of 

 which constructs its portable habitations out of its own excre- 



